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...hunted for sport. A number of them were rabid and quickly transmitted the disease to other forms of wildlife and to some humans: rabies killed 13 people in the U.S. during the past decade. "Once raccoon rabies is here, it's here to stay," says Dr. Matthew Cartter, an epidemiologist with the Connecticut State Department of Health. "This is a long-term problem...
...obscured a humanitarian problem. It also deepened the unease of Western governments and relief agencies faced with a leadership in Addis Ababa that accepts their aid while reviling their principles. "There is a growing awareness in the relief community of just how ruthless the Mengistu government is," said Chris Cartter of Boston-based Grassroots International, one of the relief groups operating in East Africa. "The question is what to do about...
...University of Michigan followed closely with 15 departments ranked in the top five. Yale University tied the University of Chicago with 12. The questionnaire's results are similar to the findings of two previous surveys: the 1964 Cartter survey and the Roose-Anderson survey conducted in 1969. "There is a rough reputational consensus in scholarly performance and achievement." Ladd said, though he emphasized the Ladd-Lipset study used different methods than the other two studies...
...most of which it far outshines Berkeley. Returning to weighting, and omitting professional schools, I allowed three points for a "first," two for a "second," one for a "third." The results were Harvard 42, Berkeley 31! Yale received 16 points to Stanford's eight; yet you report Cartter as ranking Stanford third...
Best Balanced: Berkeley. Cartter makes only one sweeping conclusion: based on the quality of its graduate faculty, he rates the University of California at Berkeley as "the best balanced distinguished university in the country." The lead stems from an average of individual discipline ratings in five broad fields, and even though Berkeley ranks second to Harvard in humanities, social sciences, biological sciences and physical sciences, Harvard falls critically short in engineering. In the "effectiveness" of graduate programs (see table), the two schools are closer: Harvard rates first in nine of the 29 disciplines, Berkeley in seven; yet 20 of Berkeley...